Sr. Solutions Architect, Ads, Amazon Ads Partner Development

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect to join its dynamic team in the rapidly growing advertising sector. This role involves advising digital advertising agencies and large customers on API-based solutions, fostering partnerships, and driving innovation in advertising technology. You'll work closely with internal teams to align product strategies and ensure successful deployment of solutions. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive and contribute to transformative advertising experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains like software development and cloud computing.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with tech leaders to promote Amazon Ads ad tech.
• Support global leaders in achieving revenue objectives through ad products.

Skills

REST API Development

Cloud Computing

Data & Analytics

Systems Engineering

Networking

Software Development

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent Engineering or Mathematics degree

Job description

Sr. Solutions Architect, Ads, Amazon Ads Partner Development

Job ID: 2955911 | Amazon (China) Holding Company Limited

Amazon Ads is looking for an experienced solution architect to join its global solutions architecture team advising ISVs (AdTech, MartTech and analytics), diverse range of digital advertising agencies as well as large customers who have invested in API-based advertising solutions.
Amazon Ads helps brands create experiences that delight customers and deliver meaningful results. With 300+ million worldwide active customers, and first-party insights based on shopping, streaming and browsing signals, Amazon enables brands to craft innovative campaigns that help customers find and discover anything they want. Our solutions on Amazon.com, services like Twitch, Freevee, Alexa, Amazon Music, and partnerships with third-party publishers and exchanges make Amazon Ads the ultimate amplifier for brands to reach the right audiences in the right places, both on and off Amazon. Amazon Advertising is a key strategic focus for Amazon and is in a rapid and exciting growth phase.
We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining an innovative team working to build a unique, world-class advertising business with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
Amazon Ads Partners help brands achieve and exceed their desired outcomes through tech innovation and expert managed services. Our team builds partnerships across the advertising landscape to drive innovation and growth for all brands, including those that do not sell on Amazon.com. In order to accelerate the next phase of Amazon Ads development, we are committed to transforming the depth, scale and ambition of our partnerships with a diverse landscape of partners across a full range of independent agencies, as well as AdTech and MarTech SaaS providers. With a full suite of ad tech products available, development of partner technical solutions is foundational for customer success.
As Ads partners work across all ad products, supply sources and geographies, this is an exciting opportunity to support the business. As trusted partners and customer advocates, our solutions architects advise organizations on how to develop advanced cloud-based solutions and prioritize their ad tech roadmap. You will have the opportunity to build mindshare and broad use of Amazon ad tech including Amazon Marketing Cloud within the digital advertising community. You should also have a demonstrated ability to provide critical support to address business, products, and technical challenges. You will be partnering with other teams within Ads and AWS such as product, business development, service teams, marketing, and sales, prioritizing your initiatives and aligning goals to maximize long term value.

Key job responsibilities

1. Build and maintain relationships with tech leaders across ad agencies, SaaS providers and large customers to promote awareness of Amazon Ads ad tech.
2. Build relationships with partners and customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads/solutions that support digital advertising and marketing transformations. Hands-on solution architect with strong REST API and SDK development skills to build and scale solutions with partners.
3. Support Global leaders who own achievement of revenue objectives through the adoption of ad products, applications, software, and services, in partnership with business development.
4. Serve as key business partner to educate customers on the value proposition of Amazon ad tech and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
5. Build strong relationships with internal product teams to ensure alignment of the product roadmap, vision, and strategy to fully take advantage of future changes and new markets.
6. Support the education and training of partners on the positioning of Amazon Ads and contribute to industry thought leadership.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 3+ years of experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences
- 3+ years of experience matching or developing technical solutions to customer business problems
- 3+ years of analytical and quantitative skills experience demonstrating the ability to use data and metrics to back-up assumptions, make recommendations, and drive actions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- 2+ years of experience with written and verbal communication for Director+ audiences
- 2+ years of leadership experience with business reviews and adapting to work to business review outcomes

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